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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Norse : Hilltop garden

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (northern borders) and Scottish : probably a variant of Hoggard, but perhaps, as Black suggests, a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place named with the dialect word hoggarth ‘lamb enclosure’.

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